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Self-effacingly lost in the crowd was the candidate's beaming husband.
Richard H. Smith: The Top Vote-Getter in America? Lockyer of California Richard H. Smith 2010
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The effect is that I feel that, as a woman, I have to dance the line between being confidently assertive and self-effacingly modest.
You Didn't Think You Could Win, Did You? Peggy 2008
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Deferring self-effacingly to his French colleague Bertron, who prepared a filet of beef accompanied by a tomato-less ketchup at the Dijon demo, the playful Rose treated the crowd to fried green tomatoes.
Flora Lazar: Hardest Reservation in Paris: New Trier Grad's Restaurant 2010
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BNY Mellon, self-effacingly positioned himself as a support act for
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The effect is that I feel that, as a woman, I have to dance the line between being confidently assertive and self-effacingly modest.
Archive 2008-12-01 Peggy 2008
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(Thus the ghost of the phrase "busman's holiday" hovers self-effacingly in the background.)
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Self-effacingly lost in the crowd was the candidate's beaming husband.
Richard H. Smith: The Top Vote-Getter in America? Lockyer of California Richard H. Smith 2010
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She is an excellent artist, and after collaborating so self-effacingly with others — often playing only the continuo — she deserved the spotlight.
Edith Weiss-Mann. 2009
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Deferring self-effacingly to his French colleague Bertron, who prepared a filet of beef accompanied by a tomato-less ketchup at the Dijon demo, the playful Rose treated the crowd to fried green tomatoes.
Flora Lazar: Hardest Reservation in Paris: New Trier Grad's Restaurant 2009
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The polite never-upset-people sort who bullies oh so sweetly and self effacingly.
Iain Dale Deserves Better Newmania 2007
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